This video, “A vision of students today” made by anthropology professor at Kansas State University Michael Wesch, along with his students; give a perspective of how students today relate school and technology, and how our education is being distracted by new media entertainment. In silence throughout the film students with written notes explain how their focus is paid more to online social media than to school, some of them explaining they will write 42 pages for class this semester and over 500 pages of e-mail, or they will read 8 books throughout the year, but over 2,300 web pages and 1,281 Facebook profiles. Technology has evolved our era, but these persons our also showing us its side effects, in this case how it’s affecting students today. One of them, shows us his inappropriate use of online media in a classroom when he says he brings his laptop to school, but doesn’t use it to work on class stuff. Students nowadays need to rethink the purpose of using technology, and how to relate it to school in a positive way. This video gives an idea of how schools function today, and the way technology is affecting our education system. Demonstrating much learning nowadays is being done online, possibly explaining old school teaching methods will not work anymore and that there is something important to be done over this and change it.
Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!
Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study? As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…). Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
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